Here is a story we have been following for a while, the sell-off of most of the properties once tied to The Washington Post Company.

One can go back as far as you would like to determine when it started. Was it the sale of Newsweek? or of The Post itself.

In any case, the sell-off continues. I’m sure Donald Graham would eventually like to find a buyer for Kaplan, the for-profit, tax payer funded education unit. But he may well hand on to that until the very end.

“Donna Byrd, publisher, and Henry Louis Gates, co-founder, established The Root and made it the success it is today. We are extremely proud and grateful for all they have accomplished, and we are excited for the new growth opportunities today’s sale gives them,” said Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO of Graham Holdings.